William Kassouf Slow Rolls Derek in Crazy Cash Game Hand

During his appearance on Live at the Bike at the end of August, William Kassouf once again did what he does best – create some epic moments for the viewers at home. In the uncapped $5/$5 game at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, the loud-mouthed Brit unleashed a brutal slow roll on another player at the table, ‘Derek’, after flopping quads against his full house.

As with the majority of Kassouf’s exploits at the poker table, he was antagonising players before the hand even begun. He opened the action in a straddled pot from UTG+1 by open-limping 6h6s, to which his eventual victim responded by over-calling with 8s8d after pointing to Kassouf’s $10 chip in the middle and questioning, ‘limp?’. Kassouf responded by telling Derek ‘I’m setting the trap’. After the SB and BB call and the straddle checks behind, the dynamite flop is dealt: 8c6c6d.

Mid-sentence as he sees the good news, Kassouf double-checks his hand and announces ‘How should I play quads?’. Unlike the lie he told pre-flop that he was setting the trap, this time he certainly was as he elects to check behind in this five-way pot. Derek – flopping the full house and losing only to 1 hand combination – also checks back to deceive his opponents, unbeknownst to him that he has only 5% equity after flopping the second-nuts.

In the most prophetic moment of the hand, Will ponders aloud on the 4s turn: ‘how can I lose with quads . . . only if he has eights full [of sixes] and it comes an eight on the river’. Derek flat-calls the turn bet, and the now three-way pot is only $155 in size with all the slow-playing. Kassouf raises the UTG’s $60  bluff on this 4h river, making it $225 and leaving him $365 behind. Much to Derek’s misinformed excitement, he re-raises Kassouf to put him all-in and ironically accompanies it with Will’s own catchphrase – ‘like a boss’. After the UTG player folds, Will makes sure that he has quads so that he can milk the moment for all it’s worth and quips to the dealer, ‘is there a time limit on how long you can take to slow roll?’. Kassouf tanks for more than 90 seconds before making the call and feigns devastation when Derek rolls over the full house.

In a potentially record breaking slow roll, Kassouf takes longer than a minute to reveal his quads to the visibly irritated Derek, getting the help of another player at the table to turn over the case 6 in his hand.